2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 42a - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 9 - Secured Transactions
Section 42a-9-304 - Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.

(a) The local law of a bank's jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a security interest in a deposit account maintained with that bank.

(b) The following rules determine a bank's jurisdiction for purposes of this part:

(1) If an agreement between the bank and the debtor governing the deposit account expressly provides that a particular jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction for purposes of this part, this article or this title, that jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction.

(2) If subdivision (1) does not apply and an agreement between the bank and its customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the agreement is governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction.

(3) If neither subdivision (1) nor subdivision (2) applies and an agreement between the bank and its customer governing the deposit account expressly provides that the deposit account is maintained at an office in a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the bank's jurisdiction.

(4) If none of the preceding subdivisions applies, the bank's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the office identified in an account statement as the office serving the customer's account is located.

(5) If none of the preceding subdivisions applies, the bank's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the chief executive office of the bank is located.

(1959, P.A. 133, S. 9-304; P.A. 76-369, S. 19, 20; P.A. 79-435, S. 49; P.A. 96-198, S. 24; P.A. 97-182, S. 60; P.A. 01-132, S. 24.)

History: P.A. 76-369 included security interests “in money” in Subsec. (1) and added reference to Subsecs. (2) and (3) of Sec. 42a-9-306 and specified in Subsec. (5)(a) that priority between conflicting security interests in goods is subject to Sec. 42a-9-312(3); P.A. 79-435 specified applicability to instruments “other than certificated securities” in Subsecs. (1), (4) and (5); P.A. 96-198 amended Subsec. (1) to add provision that a security interest in the rights to proceeds of a written letter of credit can be perfected only by the secured party's taking possession of the letter of credit; P.A. 97-182 amended Subsecs. (1), (4) and (5) to make provisions applicable to a security interest in a certificated security by deleting the provisions that excluded certificated securities from the term “instruments” and amended Subsec. (5) to include the delivery of a certificated security in Subdiv. (b); P.A. 01-132 replaced former provisions re manner of perfecting a security interest in instruments, documents, proceeds of a letter of credit and goods covered by documents and temporary perfection without filing or transfer of possession with provisions re the law governing perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a security interest in a deposit account maintained with a bank.